Chapter 2973 — A Fall

Sun Jingyan was straining hard at the pull, but Wei Zhao felt relieved—at last there was no longer a blinding expanse of white before his eyes. Had he known it would be like this, Wei Zhao would rather not have taken the advantage and would have let Sun Jingyan take off her own clothes first! "Jingyi, come on!" Sun Jingyan gritted her teeth, gave herself a little pep talk, then yanked hard at Wei Zhao's shorts, using both legs and both hands to drag them down! With a loud "splash," accompanied by Sun Jingyan's startled cry of "Ah!", she crashed down heavily—though Wei Zhao's shorts were successfully pulled off. Because Sun Jingyan had used too much force, and the ground beneath her feet had been made somewhat slick by the mist, and because her body had been tilted at an angle beforehand, her foot slipped and her whole body pitched forward onto the floor. As ill luck would have it, Sun Jingyan's head landed right between Wei Zhao's legs! "Mmm..." Sun Jingyan felt as though her face were pressed against an iron rod, pressing painfully into her cheek, but for a moment she couldn't work out what it was. She scrambled shakily up from the floor to see exactly what her face had been pressed against. But that one look was enough—Sun Jingyan flushed crimson with shame, and she scarcely dared look at Wei Zhao anymore... She wondered whether Wei Zhao would think she was some lecherous woman who had done it on purpose. But she really hadn't done it on purpose! "Uh, at that angle—if you'd been off by just a little, I might well have been crippled..." Seeing Sun Jingyan's embarrassment, Wei Zhao couldn't resist a joke. But after such a fright from Sun Jingyan, he had no time to savor the ambiguity of it all. "If you're crippled, I'll heal you," Sun Jingyan said with a giggle, and the awkwardness between them vanished in an instant. "Let me help you into the tub." As she spoke, Sun Jingyan helped Wei Zhao into the bathtub, then hopped in herself and sat right across from him. The two of them sat face to face like that, and Wei Zhao's heart, which had just settled a little, began racing again. "So what do we do now?" Wei Zhao tried not to think about all those messy things. He reminded himself constantly that the priority was healing his injuries. Everything else could wait. "Put your hands on me. Then you don't have to do anything—just wait for me to heal you!" Sun Jingyan said. "All right." Wei Zhao nodded and reached out to rest his hands on Sun Jingyan's shoulders. "What acupoints are there on my shoulders? Can't you put them somewhere else?" Sun Jingyan said, half amused, half exasperated. "Somewhere else?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. Given his posture and angle, apart from resting his hands on Sun Jingyan's shoulders, the only other option was to touch her chest—but... how could he do that? "Hurry up!" Sun Jingyan hadn't thought that far. All she had in mind was circulating the Sun family's mental cultivation formula to heal Wei Zhao, and she had overlooked this point. "All right!" Wei Zhao gritted his teeth. "Since you're being so bold, it'd be strange for me to keep acting coy!" With that, Wei Zhao placed both hands on Sun Jingyan's breasts. "Ah!" Sun Jingyan was caught off guard by the grope and gave a start—even though the one groping her was Wei Zhao, she still instinctively shrank back. "Wh-what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be healing me? Is your hand better?" "It's not better. My arm was injured to begin with, so I can only barely stretch it out straight. If you won't let me touch your shoulders, then shifting my hands lower, this is the only place left..." Wei Zhao could tell that Sun Jingyan really hadn't meant anything special before—it was he who had misunderstood. So he apologized. Hearing this, Sun Jingyan finally remembered that Wei Zhao's arm was injured, and at this angle, if not on the shoulders, his hands could only rest on her chest! "But... with you touching me like that, I can't calm down enough to circulate the mental cultivation formula..." Although Sun Jingyan felt that, having already decided to follow Wei Zhao, being touched by him wasn't really a big deal, her heart was pounding so hard—how could she possibly calm down to circulate the formula? "Then... turn around, and I'll put my hands on your back!" Wei Zhao also felt that the current position was leaving him restless, so he said. "Mm..." Sun Jingyan nodded and turned around, and Wei Zhao placed his hands on her smooth back... Even so, Wei Zhao's heart was still racing. After all, this lovers' bath was ambiguous enough in itself, and everything else was stimulating his senses. Drawing a few deep breaths, Sun Jingyan calmed herself and began to circulate the Sun family's mental cultivation formula. After all, this was her first time using the formula to heal someone—she had never treated anyone before—so she could only feel her way forward... Fortunately, the Sun family's mental cultivation method was already very mature. Once she began circulating it, Sun Jingyan didn't feel anything unusual, but Wei Zhao was astonished to discover countless streams of true qi surging through the water into his meridians through the acupoints all over his body, rapidly nourishing and repairing the injuries and meridians within him! This sensation was exactly the same as when Wei Zhao circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to heal himself—the only difference being that Wei Zhao didn't have to do anything at all; he simply had to sit back and enjoy it... "It's working—it feels exactly the same as when I heal myself!" Wei Zhao said affirmatively to Sun Jingyan. Hearing his words, Sun Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief and continued circulating the mental cultivation formula to help Wei Zhao heal... Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu returned home from school, but they didn't see Wei Zhao or Sun Jingyan. Instead, they found Wu Chengtian and the others sitting in the villa's living room, as if waiting for something. "Wu Chengtian, where's Wei Zhao?" Gu Mengyao glanced curiously at Wei Zhao's room. The door was open and the interior was in plain view, but Wei Zhao wasn't inside. "Boss, he..." Wu Chengtian hesitated, unsure whether he should say anything, yet he didn't want to lie to Gu Mengyao either, because there was simply no way to hide it. Recalling that Wei Zhao hadn't told him to keep it secret when he went in to bathe, he finally said, "Boss and Sun Jingyan are in the bathroom taking a lovers' bath together!" "What?" Gu Mengyao was stunned, staring incredulously toward the bathroom. A sour, uncomfortable feeling welled up in her heart, but then she thought of how Sun Jingyan was Uncle Qing's daughter, and how she and Wei Zhao had once been something like half-lovers, so she didn't want to make a fuss. Feigning nonchalance, she nodded. "Why would they suddenly think of taking... taking a bath? Is Wei Zhao's injury healed?" "That... I don't know either..." Wu Chengtian shook his head. "Oh, Sister Yao, I know! It must be that Sister Jingyi saw that Brother Arrowbrand had trouble with his legs, so she forcibly pushed him into the bathroom to push him down! We have to go in and stop them!" Shen Yushu said. (To be continued...)